Metacritic score of 76 from critics; 8.0 on IMDb from a large audience base. The BBC1 debut drew consolidated ratings of over 10 million - the channel's most-watched drama in a decade. Richard Madden's performance was universally cited as a career relaunch.
Renewal: A single six-episode series; Jed Mercurio confirmed no Season 2 planned as of 2026. (Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12018 · 6 eps | 26 August 2018 | 8.7 | n/a | 8.0/10 | MUST-WATCH |
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A bomb on a train and David Budd's decision to talk a suicide bomber down in real time - the six-minute opening sequence is one of the best debut sequences in recent BBC history. By its end, the show has established its register and its lead character's psychology in a single unbroken pressure test.
Full episode review →The midpoint episode that generated news coverage - a development that the show had been building toward that made the second half of the series impossible to predict. Mercurio's plotting is at its most deliberately disorienting here: the audience's trust in its own reading of events is precisely what the episode dismantles.
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